Reply #41: The Medicare Prescription Drug Lord Benefit is the proper name...

[newswolf56]

for this unspeakably outrageous scheme by which the Bush Regime -- as always -- is robbing and killing the rest of us to help the rich get richer.

Once again, Bush has succeeded in turning a vitally needed social service into nothing more than a profit center for the wealthiest Americans: this while it is literally murdering the rest of us, merely so the Prescription Drug Lords can make even more obscene profits off our misery.

And "murdering" is not hyperbole: advocates for elderly and disabled people have been pointing out these problems since before the program became law, and they were jeered at, shouted down, ignored and in some instances methodically silenced. So the Bush Regime and its supporters -- yes many DLC "Democrats" voted for the law -- cannot claim they didn't know this measure would literally kill people.

Here's the original vote on the Medicare Prescription Drug Lord Benefit:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00262

Some Democrats later reversed their votes, but that was only sleight-of-hand. The damage had been done: the initial vote paid off prescription-drug-industry supporters and guaranteed the Drug Lord Benefit would become law.

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Edit: better head.